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Homosexuals Mark and Matt have acquired Thai-designed newborns Tate and Estelle through commercialized surrogacy overseas.
These babies have a complex genealogical history. They were conceived from eggs extracted from a single Caucasian donor woman, separately
Homosexuals Mark and Matt have acquired Thai-designed newborns Tate and Estelle through commercialized surrogacy overseas.
These babies have a complex genealogical history. They were conceived from eggs extracted from a single Caucasian donor woman, separately
fertilized with the men’s sperm, then implanted into two Thai women who acted as surrogate mothers.
The men spent $80,000 to obtain the children.
Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Australia and adoption by gay people disallowed in South Australia.
What most concerns me is the
The men spent $80,000 to obtain the children.
Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Australia and adoption by gay people disallowed in South Australia.
What most concerns me is the
complete erasure of the mother or mothers in these acts of global womb renting by wealthy Westerners. This latest case highlights this mother disappearance.
There is no mother in the story. A graph showed the two men as “Biological Fathers” and the women as “Surrogate 1” and
There is no mother in the story. A graph showed the two men as “Biological Fathers” and the women as “Surrogate 1” and
“Surrogate 2”.
“We have decided we will not contact the donor but we do have photos of her, which we will give to the children,” Matt said.
The birth mothers won’t ever be contacted or shared in photos even though it was their voices the babies heard and responded to in-utero,
“We have decided we will not contact the donor but we do have photos of her, which we will give to the children,” Matt said.
The birth mothers won’t ever be contacted or shared in photos even though it was their voices the babies heard and responded to in-utero,
their bodies who nourished and sustained them and prepared for their arrival.
The mothers who grew and birthed Tate and Estelle are eliminated from the children’s history, treated as nothing more than disposable uteruses. The physical, emotional, spiritual bonds between mother
The mothers who grew and birthed Tate and Estelle are eliminated from the children’s history, treated as nothing more than disposable uteruses. The physical, emotional, spiritual bonds between mother
and child that develop during a pregnancy are rendered null and void by a monetary transaction.
Surrogate baby breeding rings are springing up in Thailand. “Baby 101” was shut down in 2011, with 13 Vietnamese women, half of them pregnant, freed.
In Thailand, the hired mother
Surrogate baby breeding rings are springing up in Thailand. “Baby 101” was shut down in 2011, with 13 Vietnamese women, half of them pregnant, freed.
In Thailand, the hired mother
is required to be single but with previous children. Wouldn’t her being single with children make her even more vulnerable to exploitation? Could she understand a contract and provide full informed consent? Was it possible for her to change her mind at any time?
Would she be
Would she be
required to terminate when multiple embryos were implanted and grew? What if the drugs and other procedures make her ill now or in future? It’s unlikely she will ever be followed up.
This industry is taking Australia back to the dark days of mother-child separations and baby
This industry is taking Australia back to the dark days of mother-child separations and baby
snatching at birth.
A new documentary Breeders: A Subclass of Women?, produced by the US Centre for Bioethics and Culture Network, explores some of the harms of surrogacy in general, with women feeling used, exploited and unable to forget the children they birthed in this global
A new documentary Breeders: A Subclass of Women?, produced by the US Centre for Bioethics and Culture Network, explores some of the harms of surrogacy in general, with women feeling used, exploited and unable to forget the children they birthed in this global
baby production industry.
Australian women have also spoken out about their damaging experiences of surrogacy. Sydney surrogate birth mother Shona Ryan told a Canberra conference: “My subconscious, my body, my emotions, knew I’d given birth and were screaming out for that baby.
Australian women have also spoken out about their damaging experiences of surrogacy. Sydney surrogate birth mother Shona Ryan told a Canberra conference: “My subconscious, my body, my emotions, knew I’d given birth and were screaming out for that baby.
I kept having the urge to tell people, ‘I’ve had a baby!’ “
